FYI: "Cloud Interoperability Roadmaps for IaaS" Session on Dec 10 at OMG in Long Beach, Ca.

[Bob Marcus]

On December 10, there will be a Session on "Cloud Interoperability Roadmaps for IaaS" at an OMG Technical Meeting in Long Beach, Ca.  The presenters will include leaders of  government, industry, and standards groups working on Cloud Computing. (See the attached draft agenda). The goal is to initiate a collaborative Roadmap Process leading towards improved interoperability/portability across Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud APIs. Recently several efforts have been launched by standards groups and industry to develop "Open APIs" for IaaS. There is a general consensus that the functionality of these APIs often overlap while the specific details of the interfaces are divergent.  Harmonizing IaaS APIs seem like an achievable goal for a Cloud Interoperability Roadmap Process. The resulting Roadmap should help enterprises and governments plan future Cloud deployments and procurements.

The expected participants in the "Cloud Interoperability Roadmaps for IaaS" Session on Dec 10 include VMware, IBM, Microsoft, Citrix/Xen from industry; DMTF, OGF OCCI, SNIA, GICTF from standards groups; and Chris Kemp (NASA  Ames CIO) from government.  Chris is a strong advocate of  open source and standards for government clouds. The tentative format is presentations in the morning followed by interactive discussions in the afternoon.  The goal is to establish an initial plan for government, industry, and standards group collaboration on harmonizing core IaaS APIs during the next year. 

The Session is a follow-on to a series of meetings in 2009 among government, industry, and standards groups.  These include a Cloud Interoperability Workshop (March), a Cloud Standards Coordination Session  (July), and a Government Cloud Initiatives and Standards Roadmaps Workshop (September). The results of these meeting include Cloud Standards Coordination group and a presentation on a Cloud Standards Roadmap Process.

Bob Marcus

FYI: There will also be a short Session on "Platform Independent Models for PaaS" in the evening of December 10 after the main IaaS Session.

 

P.S. I will be off the grid in India during the next few days but can provide more detailed information after November 11.

[Open4G]

Thanks for the informative post.

I was preparing to write a post on cloud standards efforts including
efforts at ETSI to develop standards and interoperability testing.
ETSI in included as a SSO of the CloudStandards organization.

Links:
http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/GRID09/Technical.htm
http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/GRID09/Docs/ts_102827v010101p%20GCM%20DD.pdf

Robert Syputa

On Nov 6, 10:05 pm, Bob Marcus <robert.mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On December 10, there will be a Session on "Cloud Interoperability Roadmaps

> for IaaS"* *at an OMG Technical Meeting in Long Beach,
> Ca<http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/ca/info.htm>.

> The presenters will include leaders of  government, industry, and standards
> groups working on Cloud Computing. (See the attached draft agenda). The goal
> is to initiate a collaborative Roadmap Process leading towards improved
> interoperability/portability across Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud
> APIs. Recently several efforts have been launched by standards groups and
> industry to develop "Open APIs" for IaaS. There is a general

> consensus<http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/863>that the

> functionality of these APIs often overlap while the specific
> details of the interfaces are divergent.  Harmonizing IaaS APIs seem like an
> achievable goal for a Cloud Interoperability Roadmap Process. The resulting
> Roadmap should help enterprises and governments plan future Cloud
> deployments and procurements.
>
> The expected participants in the "Cloud Interoperability Roadmaps for

> IaaS"<http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/ca/special-events/Cloud_Interop_R...>Session

> on Dec 10 include VMware, IBM, Microsoft, Citrix/Xen from industry;
> DMTF, OGF OCCI, SNIA, GICTF from standards groups; and Chris Kemp (NASA

> Ames CIO) from government.* * Chris is a strong advocate of  open source and

> standards for government clouds. The tentative format is presentations in
> the morning followed by interactive discussions in the afternoon.  The goal
> is to establish an initial plan for government, industry, and standards
> group collaboration on harmonizing core IaaS APIs during the next year.
>
> The Session is a follow-on to a series of meetings in 2009 among government,
> industry, and standards groups.  These include a Cloud Interoperability

> Workshop <http://federalcloudcomputing.wik.is/March_23%2c_2009>

> (March), a Cloud
> Standards Coordination

> Session<http://federalcloudcomputing.wik.is/July_15%2c_2009>

> (July), and a Government Cloud Initiatives and Standards Roadmaps

> Workshop<http://federalcloudcomputing.wik.is/September_21%2c_2009>
> * **(*September). The results of these meeting include Cloud Standards
> Coordination <http://cloud-standards.org/> group and a presentation on a Cloud
> Standards Roadmap
> Process<http://federalcloudcomputing.wik.is/@api/deki/files/105/=Mell_Cloud_S...>.

>
> Bob Marcus
>
> FYI: There will also be a short Session on "Platform Independent Models for
> PaaS" in the evening of December 10 after the main IaaS Session.
>
> P.S. I will be off the grid in India during the next few days but can
> provide more detailed information after November 11.
>

>  Draft Agenda for IaaS Session.doc
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